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wav2vec2-large-chinese-zh-cn

Available as managed deployment Audio wbbbbb · community Speech→text 1 variants 817 dl/mo

wav2vec2-large-chinese-zh-cn is an open-weight audio or speech model from wbbbbb. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

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What it is

Released bywbbbbb
TypeAudio & music
TaskSpeech→text
Parameters (lead)321M
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-07-18
Popularity817 downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What wav2vec2-large-chinese-zh-cn is

Fine-tuned facebook/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53 on Chinese using the train and validation splits of Common Voice 6.1, CSS10 and ST-CMDS. When using this model, make sure that your speech input is sampled at 16kHz.

This model has been fine-tuned on RTX3090 for 50h

The script used for training can be found here: https://github.com/jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-sprint

Read the full model card

Usage

The model can be used directly (without a language model) as follows...

Using the HuggingSound library:

from huggingsound import SpeechRecognitionModel
model = SpeechRecognitionModel("wbbbbb/wav2vec2-large-chinese-zh-cn")
audio_paths = ["/path/to/file.mp3", "/path/to/another_file.wav"]
transcriptions = model.transcribe(audio_paths)

Evaluation

The model can be evaluated as follows on the Chinese (zh-CN) test data of Common Voice.

import torch
import re
import librosa
from datasets import load_dataset, load_metric
from transformers import Wav2Vec2ForCTC, Wav2Vec2Processor
import warnings
import os

os.environ["KMP_AFFINITY"] = ""

LANG_ID = "zh-CN"
MODEL_ID = "zh-CN-output-aishell"
DEVICE = "cuda"

test_dataset = load_dataset("common_voice", LANG_ID, split="test")

wer = load_metric("wer")
cer = load_metric("cer")

processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
model.to(DEVICE)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def speech_file_to_array_fn(batch):
    with warnings.catch_warnings():
        warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
        speech_array, sampling_rate = librosa.load(batch["path"], sr=16_000)
    batch["speech"] = speech_array
    batch["sentence"] = (
        re.sub("([^\u4e00-\u9fa5\u0030-\u0039])", "", batch["sentence"]).lower() + " "
    )
    return batch

test_dataset = test_dataset.map(
    speech_file_to_array_fn,
    num_proc=15,
    remove_columns=['client_id', 'up_votes', 'down_votes', 'age', 'gender', 'accent', 'locale', 'segment'],
)

# Preprocessing the datasets.
# We need to read the audio files as arrays
def evaluate(batch):
    inputs = processor(
        batch["speech"], sampling_rate=16_000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True
    )

    with torch.no_grad():
        logits = model(
            inputs.input_values.to(DEVICE),
            attention_mask=inputs.attention_mask.to(DEVICE),
        ).logits

    pred_ids = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
    batch["pred_strings"] = processor.batch_decode(pred_ids)
    return batch

result = test_dataset.map(evaluate, batched=True, batch_size=8)

predictions = [x.lower() for x in result["pred_strings"]]
references = [x.lower() for x in result["sentence"]]

print(
    f"WER: {wer.compute(predictions=predictions, references=references, chunk_size=1000) * 100}"
)
print(f"CER: {cer.compute(predictions=predictions, references=references) * 100}")

Test Result:

In the table below I report the Word Error Rate (WER) and the Character Error Rate (CER) of the model. I ran the evaluation script described above on other models as well (on 2022-07-18). Note that the table below may show different results from those already reported, this may have been caused due to some specificity of the other evaluation scripts used.

ModelWERCER
wbbbbb/wav2vec2-large-chinese-zh-cn70.47%12.30%
jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-chinese-zh-cn82.37%19.03%
ydshieh/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-chinese-zh-cn-gpt84.01%20.95%

Citation

If you want to cite this model you can use this:

@misc{grosman2021xlsr53-large-chinese,
  title={Fine-tuned {XLSR}-53 large model for speech recognition in {C}hinese},
  author={Grosman, Jonatas},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/wbbbbb/wav2vec2-large-chinese-zh-cn}},
  year={2021}
}

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Speech RecognitionCommon Voice zh-CNTest WER70.470
Speech RecognitionCommon Voice zh-CNTest CER12.300

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys wav2vec2-large-chinese-zh-cn for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wav2vec2-large-chinese-zh-cn below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -F model="wav2vec2-large-chinese-zh-cn" -F file=@audio.mp3

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